Investment markets and key developments Share markets were mixed over the last week as the escalating Israel/Iran war, with ...

President Donald Trump has pushed for the Federal Reserve to lower interest rates by “a full point” in order to juice the economy as inflation hovers close to its target level. But Fed Chair Jerome ...

The 30-stock Dow lost 44.14 points, or 0.10%, and ended at 42,171.66. The S&P 500 slipped 0.03% to close at 5,980.87, and the ...

The number of Americans applying for jobless benefits dropped to 245,000 last week, the U.S. Labour Department said Wednesday ...

"The increase could be a sign of a slight pickup in job separations," said Conrad DeQuadros, senior economic advisor at Brean ...

Due to the conflict, oil prices rallied on worries about the crude supply. The price of a barrel of benchmark US crude soared ...

US new-home construction unexpectedly fell in November as a drop in multifamily projects mitigated a rebound in starts of single-family houses, solely in the storm-ravaged South. Housing starts ...

Starts for housing projects with five units or more soared 22.0% to a rate of 360,000 units in June. Overall housing starts advanced 3.0% to a rate of 1.353 million units. Economists polled by Reuters ...

U.S. housing starts rose in June, indicating increased optimism in the market that mortgage rates will cool. Here are the main takeaways from the Commerce Department's report released Wednesday.

The numbers: Construction of new U.S. homes rose 3% in June as builders scaled up new projects. Housing starts rose to a 1.35 million annual pace from 1.31 million in May, the government said ...

--Housing starts, a measure of U.S. home building, rose 3.0% in June to a seasonally adjusted rate of 1.353 million. --Economists polled by The Wall Street Journal had expected starts to increase ...

The US Dollar Index stays in negative territory below 104.00. Housing Starts in the US rose 3% in June to 1.35 million units, the monthly data published by the US Census Bureau revealed on Tuesday.